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openSUSE 11.3 final released

Following several development milestones and two release candidates, the openSUSE Project developers have announced the arrival of the final version of openSUSE 11.3, the latest release of their popular Linux distribution. The 11.3 release includes a number of changes, package updates and new features over the previous 11.2 release from November of 2009.

The latest openSUSE release is based on version 2.6.34 of the Linux kernel and includes GNOME 2.30.1 and KDE SC 4.4.4 (the latest release is version 4.4.5 from the end of June). The updated installer now includes support for the Btrfs file system, making openSUSE the first distribution to let users select Btrfs in the installer, and openSUSE's Zypper command line package manager has received several updates.

Other changes include various KDE, GNOME and LXDE desktop updates and changes. Package updates include version 3.2.1 of the OpenOffice.org office suite, Firefox 3.6.6 and the 3.0.5 release of the Thunderbird email client – Thunderbird 3.1 was released at the end of last month. Integration of the Nouveau driver now provides better support for NVIDIA graphics cards and improved netbook support is also included.